"Then hurry up. Speed, speed."
It was still dark.
The road leading to City Center was already heavily congested.
Everyone driving was a corporate wage slave.
Among Night City's major megacorporations, apart from Biotechnology, which gave its employees six days of paid leave a year...
The other megacorps never took a day off.
Their weekly working hours were also absurdly long.
They had to go to work before dawn.
They could only clock out and go home to rest after midnight.
Jack had originally planned to go straight from City Center to Watson District, since that was the shortest route.
As everyone knew, a straight line was the shortest distance between two points.
But the traffic was a complete mess.
He had no idea how far the line ahead stretched.
So he simply turned the steering wheel.
Watson District bordered both City Center and Westbrook.
Since the City Center side was so badly jammed, they might as well take a detour through the other side.
Besides, fuel in 2077 Night City was cheaper than it had been fifty-five years ago. A detour would not cost much more.
Westbrook was Night City's most prosperous economic district. The wealth created by the other districts was ultimately spent here.
North Oak, where refined people gathered and commoners were nowhere to be seen, was also located in this district.
But North Oak was not somewhere anyone could simply visit.
Unless they were wealthy residents or had been invited, merely appearing in North Oak could very well get them shot for trespassing.
That was why, when Su Xiao and the others had acted last time, they had taken a Delamain Taxi instead of using their own Nomad-style SUV.
Some Nomads had once sneaked into North Oak to scavenge.
They could often find plenty of